SCIENCE

Researchers from the University of Minnesota in the US have discovered a new material which is transparent for light to pass through with highest known conductivity that can revolutionize the way future electronic devices are made, including helping in the most ambitious space elevator project. The scientists grew a BaSnO3 thin film, a combination of barium, tin and oxygen, called ...

Empty storm-like ring in an image taken from 1,900 miles away from Saturn has puzzled ring scientists of NASA as the Cassini spacecraft photos will change the entire understanding hitherto of Saturn rings. The second-largest planet in our solar system has absolutely nothing between the huge gaps between the rings of Saturn, not even the faintest hint of some kind ...

Space diplomacy of India reached a different level with a unique gift in the sky to South Asian neighbours, barrring the arch-rival Pakistan, which has opted out on suspicions of espionage or space watching. The gift of a communications satellite for use by neighbours at no cost has perhaps no precedent worldwide and each country can get one transponder to ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden, first of its kind, on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt. The original discovery made in the 16th year of archaeological excavations was sponsored this year by Técnicas Reunidas and Indra to shed light on a key epoch. It gives credence for the first time that Thebes (now Luxor) became the ...

As the world remembers the massive failure of German airship Hindenburg on May 6, 2037, the upcoming Galactic Ship by billionnaire Branson in December 2017 stokes fears though technology has far outstripped occurrence of such tragedy again. The passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while landing at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, ...

World renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, in a BBC program, has warned Earthlings to leave the mother planet in 100 years or face extinction, a doomsday prophecy that the mankind is destined to face repeatedly. His warning in a forthcoming BBC documentary – Expedition New Earth – to be aired this summer on BBC Two channel, comes when the humanity ...

US private space firm SpaceX’s prestigious and first spy satellite to be launched on Sunday was postponed to Monday following the detection of an “out of family” sensor. SpaceX said the launch of the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will take place on Monday, May 1, 2017, with a Falcon 9 that is rescheduled to lift off from the Kennedy ...

Undeterred by NASA’s silence, UFO afficianados have ramped up another theory that the honeycomb formations surrounding a Martian crater image by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are not eroded sand dunes, but the superstructure of a ventilation roof for an underground city inhabited by tiny aliens. NASA had described it as a heavily eroded mesa in Noctis Labyrinthyuson, in the western ...

When an asteroid strikes Earth, which of its effects –scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis — would claim the most lives? A new study says violent winds and shock waves are the most dangerous in such calamity. The study explored seven effects associated with asteroid impacts–heat, pressure shock waves, flying debris, tsunamis, wind blasts, seismic shaking and cratering–and estimated their ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can be reduce in two ways–by cutting our emissions, or by removing it from the atmosphere, for example through plants, the ocean, and soil. The historic Paris Agreement set a target of limiting future global average temperature increase to well below 2°C and pursue efforts to even further limit the ...

Imagine crocodiles with long necks and long legs running around? Yes, that’s how they were initially ruling out the theory of their miniature size before evolving into big size as previously thought. The missing middle has finally been resolved. Researchers from National Science Foundation discovered the fossils of the new ancient species of Teleocrater rhadinus, in southern Tanzania that measured ...

Researchers found that adults were very good at remembering information they were told to focus on, and ignoring the rest. In contrast, 4- to 5-year-olds tended to pay attention to all the information that was presented to them – even when they were told to focus on one particular item. That helped children to notice things that adults didn’t catch. ...

At a time when Jio and Airtel are struggling to gain market lead with their 4G arsenal, NASA is developing what it said 100 time more powerful high-speed internet of the sky. Known as the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), it enables NASA experiment with much higher data rates for connections between spacecraft and Earth, such as scientific data downlink ...

US President Donald Trump, whose antics against climate change is already known, has axed NASA’s budget for study of weather changes, effectively altering the space agency’s Earth science program. The 2018 Budget requested $19.1 billion for the US space agency, a 0.8% decrease from the 2017 budget. It means the climate-studying mission PACE meant for study of ocean color to ...

Swedish scientists have found fossils dating back to 1.6 billion-year-old resembling red algae in Chitrakoot rocks, by far the oldest plant-like fossils ever found, suggesting that the early life form belonged here on earth and the advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought. The scientists found two kinds of fossils in sedimentary rocks at Chitrakoot in central India ...

Way back on August 29, 2009, Indian Space Research Organisation launched its first orbiting satellite Chandrayaan I to observe Moon but it fell silent after 312 days, cutting short the lifespan from two years. Undaunted, ISRO launched ntext mega project MoM or Mangalyaan to Mars that was a bigger success and live even to this day far more than its ...

Harvard researchers claimed last month that they had managed to create metallic hydrogen that has the capability to superconduct electricity at room temperature without resistance in a process that used massive amounts of pressure and a diamond vice. Stored at minus 193 degree celsius, the sample mysteriously disappeared, leaving researchers wonder whether it just evaporated. But they are determined to ...

Mars’ mantle may be more complicated than previously thought due to new evidence on its geochemical changes over time in the lava flows of Elysium volcano on Mars surface, found LSU researcher David Susko and his colleagues at LSU including his advisor Suniti Karunatillake, the University of Rahuna in Sri Lanka, the SETI Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA Ames, ...

It was strangely a declassified CIA report on a Russian military unit that was attacked by allegedly alien humanoids whose flying saucer was purportedly shot down by a missile from the ground. The report, created on March 27, 1993 soon after erstwhile Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev lost power in 1991, was initially thought to be one of many KGB ...

Yes, NASA will hold a news conference tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, to present its new findings of exoplanets around our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, which exhibits similar habitable features for life. Watch it live at http://www.ustream.tv/NASAJPL2 For NASA TV streaming video, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv CNET claimed that it has seen the details but cannot share and gave out the hint saying, ...